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Mixtral 1.5B on Arena Elo: score, rank and what it means

Mixtral 1.5B scores 1188.2 on Arena Elo, placing it #566 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 1349.9 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Max at 1501.9.

Score
1188.2
0–100 scale
Rank
#566
of 600
Percentile
6th
within the index
Benchmark avg
1349.9
all models
Leader
1501.9
Claude Opus 4.5 Max
Gap to leader
313.7
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on Arena Elo, with Mixtral 1.5B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Opus 4.5 Max 1501.9
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 1500.4
GPT-5.2 Turbo 1500.3
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 1497.5
GPT-5.2 Max 1495.3
Gemini 3 Pro Turbo 1494.9
Grok 4 Max 1491.4
Claude Opus 4.5 1491.2
GPT-5.1 Pro 1490.0
Grok 4 Reasoning 1487.6

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
2 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
3 GPT-5.2 Turbo OpenAI 1000000 $20.73 87.4
4 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
5 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
6 Gemini 3 Pro Turbo Google DeepMind 400000 $19.62 86.4
7 Grok 4 Max xAI 2000000 $19.70 86.6
8 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
9 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
10 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8

What this score means

On Arena Elo, Mixtral 1.5B sits at #566 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Max, scores 1501.9, so the gap to the top is 313.7 points. The median model in this index scores 1373.8, which puts Mixtral 1.5B below the midpoint.

Mistral AI models average 1329.1 on this benchmark. Mixtral 1.5B is 140.9 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Mistral AI model.

Among small open-weight models, the average is 1224.7. Mixtral 1.5B is 36.5 points below that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 1188.2 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.

Price context

At $0.36 per million input tokens, Mixtral 1.5B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on Arena Elo. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Llama 3 Hyperbolic 1.5B Hyperbolic 32768 $0.45 48.4
Nemotron Nano 8B NVIDIA 8192 $0.46 48.1
Codestral 1.5B Mistral AI 8192 $0.52 49.9
Phi-3.5 7B Microsoft 4096 $0.50 50.5
Mixtral 1.5B Mistral AI 16384 $0.36 47.7
Llama 3.1 1.5B Meta AI 4096 $0.53 50.7
Molmo 8B Allen Institute for AI 32768 $0.44 49.9

Other benchmarks for Mixtral 1.5B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 52.3 584 3th
GPQA Diamond 45.5 561 7th
SWE-bench Verified 30.5 580 3th
HumanEval 51.1 566 6th
MATH-500 47.3 573 5th
AIME 2025 33.8 574 4th
LiveCodeBench 35.9 561 7th
IFEval 61.6 559 7th
TruthfulQA 54.1 577 4th
HellaSwag 64.9 585 3th
MMMU 47.6 567 6th

FAQ

What score does Mixtral 1.5B get on Arena Elo?

Mixtral 1.5B scores 1188.2 on Arena Elo in this index. The benchmark average is 1349.9 and the top score is 1501.9.

How does Mixtral 1.5B rank on Arena Elo?

It ranks #566 of 600 models, in the 6th percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Max at 1501.9.

Is Mixtral 1.5B good at Arena Elo?

It is below the median for this benchmark, so test it carefully before relying on it for this capability. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the Arena Elo score calculated?

Arena Elo is a preference benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.

What does Mixtral 1.5B cost?

Mixtral 1.5B costs $0.36 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens.

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